Virgin Galactic SpaceShip VSS Enterprise RollOut.mov

[kasteman1]

Why does "The Jetsons" theme song keep getting louder and louder every year?

[DarkLordOfOri]

I remember when I was at the first launch of space ship one. I was invited and got to sit in a VIP area and watch history be made. I hope that the VSS Enterprise and future Spaceship Two models are just as successful.

[MrRockyramjet]

The Aliens monitor this stuff all the time. You don't think that they'd let a primitive race like us just hop off our planet and spread all over the galaxy do you?

Just kidding, I write a little SciFi for money.

[lights21002003]

muah ahahahahaaaaa  *****5stars*****

[origamyichi]

i keep looking for the reason why they named this thing galactic. thats prolly 500 to 1000 years for humans and curren t thecnology. this is not galactic.

[tripstotravel]

wOW! Space travel is here.

[depaulsto]

Can't wait for commercial flights to launch starting 2012. All of us at the DePaul Space Tourism Organization support Virgin Galactic's continuing innovations!

[daydreammen]

cool

[wrylie188]

only problem is: if there's a pilot on the right and a pilot on the left, how do you agree on who's the captain?

[mingushi]

we should build this more because end 2012 right heck nah build more

[OlBlueshound]

Sexy fantastic, everybody should be able to experience space travel. Well Richard, I think it's money well spent. Those that haven't experienced, well, having their own place to live, or having three meals a day, or being out of the elements at night in winter, having a job they can feel good about working to feed their family, or keeping their eyesight past 20, certainly have got lots to look forward with your space ship. What a leap forward for mankind.

[VonHelton]

*NEAR* space, not space......They are still tecxhnically in the atmosphere. Having said that, I applaud ANY progress.

[thewolfmanx]

pretty sure that when the mothership drops the spaceship, u wont have an initial velocity of 0 miles per hour...

jump out of a moving plane and see what happens..

[rushnerd]

WREX.

[Sesquipedaliantique]

This is amazing, but why pay a huge sum to do it during these early days when it might not still be perfect?

Going into space would be cool but I wouldn't want to do it until the cost goes down and enough people have travelled with Virgin Galactic to make the safety stats look reassuring :)

[TENJHOTENGE1]

i need to get a ticket for this.

[samjl4]

@TENJHOTENGE1 sure, if you have a couple of hundred thousand dollars kicking about anywhere

[Neckbonekat1029]

No way!!!

[attemptthis]

Money = progress and that is why communism doesnt work in real life

[ThePeterVenkman]

It's no martin jetpack

[333kiwi333]

FUCK VIRGIN GROUP!

[S1G7]

The design is questionable, it's basically 3 Jet planes except one is a space ship... I worry that the "mother ship" could split in half when it releases the "space ship" or is that the idea? I'm not an engineer or a scientist so I could be wrong but who knows.. Good luck to you Virgin.

[3DhollywoodTV]

Excellent!!!

[poison511]

wooow wooow wooow

شي رهيب فعلا

[TheLiquidBlaze]

Maybe its an ideo too first find a cure for cancer, aids and other huge diseases AND solving world hunger but nooooo governments spend billions too go into space. Its crazy

[ar2de2em2]

@ TheLiquidBlaze

Governments do what now?

You must not realise. Virgin is a private company that intends to make a profit.

So... my question to you... why spend billions going to the movies when there's all these hungry bellies and diseases and whatnot?

[mitja8888]

As long as money can be made of a problem, it will not be solved. Which means that people who make a living from treating cancer, will try to prevent anyone from sharing such a discovery with the public.

[Axenmoon]

hell yea just give all of our hard earned money to the permanent welfare class, and why not give them free houses, cars, cell phones, high speed internet access, hell thrown a few yachts in there also so they can live the american dream. OH WAIT THAT'S FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY WORK YOU RETARD!! we give billions of dollars to them each month!! find out the true number of welfare and you will be shocked, you think the government spends most of its cash on war?? think again!! NASA tradeoffs ftw

[sboman08]

I like the name. Enterprise, as in FREE Enterprise. Perhaps the market will work where government has failed. Back to the moon even.

[vasant85]

gonna start working for it. its my new goal now. gives me a new hope to see whats beyond our planet.

[hgldr]

That does it! I'm going to get me a leather jacket and grow my hair long.

[LookitsRebecca76]

that lady in 1:46 is also an alien :O

[amehu]

omg, this is it - the future is now waaauu

[smokeindoors420]

What about the radiation from the sun? Most astronauts develop cataracts a couple years after coming back to earth. They would need some sort of magnetic field around the SS2 or the suit itself to prevent it.

[ZaneKaminski]

Nah, that's higher, in the van Allen belts. Only people who leave suborbital trajectories and low earth orbit end up with those problems.

[lockstocknl]

@smokeindoors420

Not necessary, SS2 will only spend a few minutes outside our atmosphere. Not even close to the duration astronauts experience. Also they will not reach the heights of an orbital platform. The extra dosis of radiation people will endure on SS2 will be FAR lower than lets say an x-ray.

[vsage3]

Magnetic fields will only deflect charged particles.  Photons are not charged particles.

[vsage3]

youtube ate my last comment (maybe?)

Magnetic fields will only deflect charged particles. Photons do not have a charge.

[ti994apc]

Totally NOT impressed!!!!! Spaceship I and II get into space barely 50 miles up but do not come close to orbit. They only get 1/4th the way there. If you cannot get to orbit there is no point of having a few seconds of weightlessness. I just assume take a dive in an airplane so simulate weightlessness. Falcon 9 is impressive!.

[ZaneKaminski]

And once the first few flights are done with, a SS2 ride costs about $20,000...

A Falcon 9 launch?

45 million.

And that's not even mentioning the Dragon spacecraft.

[swedishsimon]

WTF IS GOIN ON WITH THE GUY AT 0:35? that cannot be a human. anyone agree?

[nehockc]

SHEESH WTF is that LOL!!! Definitely not human.

Definately a skinner. Maybe it is just checking to see how far humans have come?? Or to sabotage??

[putittogether]

That's because "he's" not.

[jingling30]

burn victim???

[superfly181]

@swedishsimon its quiet scary :D i think its a sort of alien thats is observing our spaceship. I agree NOT HUMAN look at the eyes lol

[TheAirplaneNutTV]

@swedishsimon

its an alien in disguise

[13alla]

i dont think this is a good idea!

[MrRockyramjet]

I hope they build a shipyard near the hotel!

[MrRockyramjet]

This is just the beginning ! These guys have a luxury space hotel on the books. I can hardly wait until they start running cargo! I can put the mining equipment up and head for the asteroid belt.

[Xakryn]

NASA, hang your heads in shame, this thing is 10 times better than the shuttle and a million times more practical. I love space, and all it has to offer, and NASA I've always looked up to you, but you've become stuck in a rut and need to open the door to people rather than trying to hold onto your precious secret club.

[qup5]

@Xakryn

You obviously know nothing about spaceflight.  '10 times better than the shuttle and a million times more practical'? Do you even understand the difference between suborbital and orbital spaceflight? Actually do some research before making a judgment on NASA, otherwise you just look like a fool.

[Shaunt1]

I love this! It's about time!

[nullproperty]

further more. good tagline, Virgin Galactic. Penetrating new frontiers! =] :P

[nullproperty]

i strongly believe that mr. branson is going to be the one to utilize warp drive as soon as we make it work, not suggesting he will impliment it, not that task is up to michio kaku! =] but branson will utilize it first! :P

[n1bigdaddy]

you expect him to live that long? Or any of us for that matter?

[mathewrtaylor]

Excellent choice for the ship's name, because you truly are going where no man has gone before! Well done, and I can hardly wait to be able to afford my own ticket!

[Rikotistic]

Love being a witness to history--an desk witness. But I can feel the power and thunder that will resound in centuries to follow. Sometimes one man can make a difference and change the future, save the future. Sounds like Star Trek: First Contact, I know. But this is someone's history. Another Trekiom: The Human Adventure has just begun.

[yewtubeful]

is this a governator only project? reduce the ticket price richard!

[rampager89]

Most excellent! Congrats on the roll out!